Archive » Tag: environment
Illegal Dumping, NORAD upgrading, Ban Treaty lessons and a just peace for Ukraine
June 26, 2022
In today’s post we ask why Canada has yet to ratify the international ban on dumping waste in developing countries, consider key lessons from NATO allies who attended the historic Ban Treaty conference, examine what a just peace might mean for Ukraine and more.
Read More
David Petrasek: Ten quick steps to reset Canadian foreign policy
October 22, 2015
by David Petrasek (CIPSBlog, 20 October 2015). David Petrasek, professor and human rights expert at the University of Ottawa, offers Ten Quick Steps to Reset Canadian Foreign Policy while the Liberals work over the longer term to re-establish Canada’s role as an active middle power that is committed to multilateralism and upholding international law. […]
Read More
Harper will not be part of the solution to Russia – Ukraine crisis
October 5, 2015
Chris Westdal, a Rideau Institute Senior Advisor, also has the distinction of having been the only Canadian Ambassador to both Ukraine and Russia. He recently gave a talk to the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, entitled: RussiaWeHardlyKnewYe In this brilliant article, Westdal briefly surveys the “train wreck” […]
Read More
Canada MIA on science diplomacy
September 1, 2015
Daryl Copeland, writing for iPolitics, discusses the damage to Canada’s global brand wrought by the government’s ill-conceived war on science and rejection of evidence-based policy and decision-making. (“Will Canada be the country that dumbed itself to death?”, iPolitics, 31 August 2015). Scientific capacity is critical in treating the central problems of the globalization age, including […]
Read More